NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11251 SCOTT CO – JOHN M. CLIFFORD – Clifford, McAfee, Davis, Cobell #11251 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883. p.579. John M. Clifford was born February 29, 1820. He is the youngest of a family of three brothers and the only one of his father’s family now living. He is the son of John R. and Margaret (McAfee) Clifford. His father was born in North Carolina, February 14, 1784. He moved to Kentucky when a boy, and was married, June 2, 1811. His wife was a native of Scott county, Kentucky. She was born February 1, 1791. They came to Pike county, Missouri, in 1825. John B. Clifford died November 12, 1865, and Margaret, his wife, March 7, 1868. The names of the two oldest boys were WM. M. Clifford, born November 1, 1812, and Benjamin Patton Clifford, born July 9, 1817. They both became prominent business men and accumulated a great deal of property. Wm. M. Clifford died June 25, 1850. Benjamin P. Clifford died December 30, 1880. John M. Clifford came to Pike county with his parents in 1825. His father was a farmer and he lived on the farm with him until he was sixteen years old. He then went on the river where he remained for several years. He first went on the “Arrow” and was on her when she sunk on the lower Mississippi in Morgan’s Bend, a few miles above Bayou Sara. He was afterward on the “Rhine,” “Shawnee,” “Julia Chanteau,” “Edna,” and “Richmond.” He was on the latter when she sunk in the Ohio River, just below Grand Chain. He was clerking while on the river. In 1846 he and his brother, Benjamin, went into business together in Clarksville, an a short time before his death his brother William also became a member of the firm, which was B. P. Clifford & Brother. Afterward John W. Davis bought into the firm and the name was changed to Clifford, Davis & Co. They kept a large stock of all kinds of goods, including dry goods, groceries, glass and queensware, iron, drugs, etc. They also kept a lumber yard and did a large commission business. They dealt largely in wheat, corn, tobacco, hemp, applies and all the different products of the country. They remained in business about nine years. Mr. Clifford is now book-keeper in the paper mill. He is a stockholder in the mill and also in the Clifford Banking Company of Clarksville. He was married June 20, 1882, to Miss Sue Cobell, of Pike county. She is a native of Indiana. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx